Allen’s Pond WS, Bristol, Massachusetts, US
May 19, 2024 8:00 AM – 10:26 AM
Protocol: Traveling
2.5 mile(s)
Checklist Comments: Brookline Bird Club walk: Leader nick Paulson, no participants. Cool, overcast and windy, occasional sprinkles.
83 species
Canada Goose 20
Mute Swan 2
Gadwall 4
Mallard 5
Common Eider (Dresser’s) 5
Red-breasted Merganser 1
Mourning Dove 4
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
Clapper Rail (Atlantic Coast) 1
Killdeer 2
Willet (Eastern) 14
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Ruddy Turnstone 6
Dunlin 30
Purple Sandpiper 1
Least Sandpiper 13
Semipalmated Sandpiper 2
Laughing Gull 2
Ring-billed Gull 10
Herring Gull (American) 75
Great Black-backed Gull 15
Common Tern (hirundo/tibetana) 80
Common Loon 5
Double-crested Cormorant 30
Snowy Egret 1
Great Egret 7
Turkey Vulture 3
Osprey (carolinensis) 10
Broad-winged Hawk 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Downy Woodpecker (Eastern) 3
Hairy Woodpecker (Eastern) 1
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 2
Eastern Wood-Pewee 1
Willow Flycatcher 4
Great Crested Flycatcher 4
Eastern Kingbird 1
White-eyed Vireo 7
Warbling Vireo (Eastern) 1
Blue Jay 3
American Crow 2
Common Raven 1
Black-capped Chickadee 7
Tufted Titmouse 6
Bank Swallow 6
Tree Swallow 9
Purple Martin 3
Barn Swallow (American) 22
White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern) 3
Marsh Wren (palustris Group) 1
Carolina Wren 8
European Starling 5
Gray Catbird 14
American Robin 18
House Sparrow 3
House Finch 4
American Goldfinch 8
Chipping Sparrow 3
White-throated Sparrow 1
Seaside Sparrow (Atlantic) 6 Several singing, beach loop, 2 seen.
Saltmarsh Sparrow 8
Savannah Sparrow (Savannah) 3
Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica) 12
Eastern Towhee 5
Bobolink 10
Orchard Oriole 3
Baltimore Oriole 7
Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged) 40
Brown-headed Cowbird 7
Common Grackle (Bronzed) 14
Ovenbird 9
Blue-winged Warbler 2
Black-and-white Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 12
Hooded Warbler 1
American Redstart 3
Yellow Warbler (Northern) 24
Blackpoll Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 2
Summer Tanager 1 75 feet south of where treetop meets fresh pond loop, along fresh pond loop in a large oak. Mostly all yellow bird with a little bit of red-orange to undertail coverts, tail, and wings. Large bill. No contrast wings vs back.
Northern Cardinal 4
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1
Indigo Bunting 1
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S175630042
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